The Arizona sentinel., 1887-07-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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 Chinese capitalists are said to be taking away the business of the for eign banks at Foo-chow by lending money at extraordinarily low rates of interest.
 A site of fifty acres has been taken for the Gordon Memorial Boys Home in London. A building will be put up to accommodate 16O boys, and the cost of maintaining the establishment will be SEQ 900 q year.
 MT. E Twin Chadwick, president of the British Association of Sanitary Engineers, recently stated that sani- tary measures applied to the army in India had reduced the death-rate in the military forces there from sixty nine per thousand to thirteen per | thousand.
 An old lady who died lately in Vienna bequeaths her property, valued at 30, 900 fiorins, to her nineteen-year- old niece, on condition that the latter would never wear clothes of any other cut than those worn by her aunt. The condition was accepted. Detroit Free Press.
 Roman carts without springs and the CiDcinnatus blow are still used in the Spanish district of Corrunna. Meat is rarely used by the peasant proprie- tors except on great festive occasions, and the common beverage is water, tea and coffee being considered luxu- ries for the rich.
 The plea that you have no small coin about you is not a valid excuse with Mexican beggars. says a cores pondent for upon such hint any one of the half-naked rascals will dive under his dirty blanket and, eroduc- ing weil-filled bag of silver courte- ously offer to make change" for you.
 The population in England and Wales was enumerated on April 4, 1881, at 9, 974, 439. and on the hypothe- SIS that the rate of increase or decrease that prevailed between the census of 1871 and that of 1881 was maintained, the population in the middle of 1886 was estimated to be 27,S70, 5S6. This means an increase of about 7.3 per cent. in the five years.
 -Extremly handsome apples and pears of many choice varieties are now imported to England from Australia. In color, shape and size most of them surpass the same English sorts. In flavor, however, with few exceptions, they are pronounced inferior to native fruit and to apples and pears from this country. American fruit has the ad- vantage of a much shorter sea journey to Europe-only three thousand miles as against fourteen thousand from Aus tralia.-M + Ledger.
 MT Coster, now at the head of the diamond-cutting industry of Amster- dam, estimates that 2,000, 900 carats of diamonds are now cut yearly in that city. In 1880 the amount was but 15,- GOO carats. Another authority says there are in Amsterdam 5000 skilled splitters, cutters and polishers, we have been working 10000 carats a week for the last five years, or an average of 1,040 carats per annum; the last years output being 1, 800, 900 car s.-DrGbe'S ITaUelerS' Mdgazi11e.
 In view of forthcoming trouble, all the Paris Rothschilds have had pack ing-cases made lined with red morocco leather each numbered and labeled, and shaped to receive not only their pictures and objects of art, but also their precious eighteenth century fur niture. These cases, numbering many hundreds, are stored in the Rothschild houses in convenient places, so that at n moments notice the objects may be packed, each in its box, and conveyed to some place of security.
 Three vessels-of-war have just been added to the English navy: the steel armor-plated turret-ship Sans- pareil, the torpedo cruiser Raccoon, and the composite sloop Buzzard. The Sanspareil is the biggest iron-clad ever launched in England. She is to carry two one hundred and ten ton guns, besides a powerful subsidiary arma- ment and will be capable of a speed | of seventeen knots. The estimated | cost of the vessel is eight hundred and | twenty-five thousand pounds ster- ling, but by the time she is finally put | into commission the backyard author ities will almost certainly, with all | their multitudinous alterations and | improvements, have brought her cost | up to a full million sterling.-Pu6Eic Opinion.